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  1. Re:Can they? on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Um the Scandinavian countries are extramly! conformist and any one who doesn't fit in gets a much harder time than in the US or UK. Sweden was sterilizing children in care in for eugenics reasons up till the 70's for example.

    Ireland is a basket case ala spain and greace.

  2. Re:its called HUGE tax breaks for R&D on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    with my HR hat on not very common in the UK - I have never signed one.

    Non competes much less common than in the USA and about as enforceable as CA. Some very very senior finance types in the city have them but you do have to be paid for gardeneing leave.

  3. milatery pensions on What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance · · Score: 1

    Did they not have death in service benefits and widows pensions already as they where all milatery types - sounds like a way to cash in on the side :-)

  4. that cant have gone down well at Google on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    They are ultra keen on the locked down walled garden approach with the chrome book.

  5. Re:Dark ages on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    Does not specify which God though - quite understandable given the wide disparity of groups that founded the USA and the fact that some of the founders where Deists

  6. Re:Keep censoring and let the rest of the world go on Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others · · Score: 1

    The Vatican is the lead for things catholic you know being an actual country.

  7. I belive its this new on AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 · · Score: 0

    Strowger switch technology - non of this gosh darned commie euro 3 and 4g:-)

  8. Re:Precisely the problem. on Senate Cybersecurity Bill Stalled By Ridiculous Amendments · · Score: 1

    Quite in normal democratic parliamentary systems amendments that are not related to the original prop / motion or spoiling amendments are ruled out. I have been on committees that have done that we even debated for an hour if the presence of "the" made an amendment a spoiling one or not.

    Maybe we need a kick starter project to give every senator/congressman a copy of Citrines ABC of chairmanship.

  9. Re:No, it isn't. on Is Phoenix the Next Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    And if you think SV is expensive try central London even in a grotty central area like old street prices in London (UK) are way higher.

  10. His point is on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    That you are excluding people from history and English degrees just because they did not do Mathematics - in the UK Oxbridge would be looking for A* English Lang and Lit and History A levels - they used to require O level Latin but dropped that in the late 70's..

    I doubt any Admissions tutor for a UK university for the soft degrees gives a rats ass about the candidates Mathematical knowledge

  11. Re:Not just inflation on Are Indian High Schoolers Manning Your IBM Help Desk? · · Score: 1

    And you don't have to worry abut gangsters stealing your home out from under you by bribing local lawyers and judges - Which has happened to a coworkers family.

  12. Re:DARPA-funded? Really? on The DARPA-Funded Power Strip That Will Hack Your Network · · Score: 1

    er Guys you know there's this useful thing called secrecy - maybe Maybe William could get the Security Service and SIS to give the CIA a few helpful hints.

  13. Re:Is it filled with helium? on The DARPA-Funded Power Strip That Will Hack Your Network · · Score: 1

    But power strips with urge suppression ports for RJ-11 and RJ-45 are only for consumer use you would not see this in a structured cabling in the office setting.

  14. Re:Bloody communists! on Lenovo CEO Gives His $3M Bonus To 10k Workers · · Score: 1

    No its not its a way of dodging tax that pays for things like medicaid and veterans administration as David Cameron says its “morally wrong.”

  15. Re:He's got the culture clash wrong on Defense Expert: Hire Hackers and Wage War · · Score: 1

    Quiet right you can vet hackers the same way you do any one else - OK not all would be cool with the job and what is involved in being vetted for DV / TS. But any one who works in high end tech jobs is probably going to face the decision do I work on defense work. But this guy seems to have zero idea, Gary McKinnon FFS he was caught hacking into NASA looking for info on UFOs - this is a short step from the sort of people who post on Usenet claiming that the BBC is sending them secret messages via the medium of the TV news.

  16. Re:Post PC on Preparing For Life After the PC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    doesn't look that way in Central London

  17. Re:Citation needed on IT Salaries and Hiring Are Up — But Just To 2008 Levels · · Score: 1

    err you know it was the main steam banks that messed up with mortgage lending not investment banks

  18. Re:Nooooooooo on Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers · · Score: 1

    Yes and for British Telecom I broke into a customers system when we took over a contract and the previous people had left under a cloud and not left the password - that was authorized by my boss the customer and a checked with a Very senior manager.

    ironically one of my coworkers i got help from was a reformed phreak and had been done for hacking :-)

  19. Re:Microsoft must be so pleased.... on Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers · · Score: 2

    Um i think you will find that Governments reserve the right for their security services do do naughty things

  20. Re:My God on UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data · · Score: 1

    well the US regulator allowed receiver pays in the US Mobile market which is why the USA lags Europe in mobile

  21. Re:Server on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise-Grade Linux Networking Hardware? · · Score: 1

    But not on a cost per watt, up time and space taken up enterprise networking is serious business if you design it right you should be able to power it up and the only time you would power it down would be to replace it at EOL (Asuming no act of god power outages)

  22. Re:yes we need more tech / vol / apprenticeships on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 1

    Having started out in the vocational track you still had to go to day release and pass the exams - though the last time i ever used my mech eng skills was to correct one of the Engineers workings for a bridge design out in the middle east - I was asked to write a program to draw out the sections ready for the detailing to be put in as the curves where to complex for draftsmen to do by hand

  23. Re:UN takeover must be stopped? on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 1

    yep it is why phone calls to third world countrys used to be so expensive the porer country was meant to get the extra cash for its infrastructure but normally went into the minster for post and telecoms swiss bank account

  24. Re:Some people just like to complain. on BT Fibre Pulls Out of Chelsea Over Ugly Equipment Cabinets · · Score: 1

    they are worried that the nanny wont be able to push the giant All Terain prama on the pavemnet (side walk) :-)

  25. Re:What are they searching for? on VA Governor Wants Military Drones For Police · · Score: 1

    Speeding drivers and spotting for officers on the ground from what I see on TV